Zitat des Tages über Beten / Pray:
I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
You always pray for a healthy child, and in this situation, Naieya was born with Spina Bifida... We had choices on the table, and choices to terminate the pregnancy. We could have went on with our lives, and that would have been it, but we decided to take on the challenge.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt.
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.
My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.
Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.
I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.
Would I get into politics? I'll just say what I tell people when they ask me this: Pray that everyday citizens like me aren't pushed to that corner.
Pray, and let God worry.
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
I don't like somebody saying to me in their performance, 'Look at this. Isn't this funny?' I pray that I don't do that. I'm sure I fall off the horse every once in a while, but I try not to.
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.